"God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it."
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Rich Mullins quotes (page 3 of 5)
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"If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy."
"Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence."
"I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more."
"If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition."
"Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine."
"Sometimes I think of Abraham How one star he saw had been lit for me He was a stranger in this land And I am that, no less than he And on this road to righteousness Sometimes the climb can be so steep I may falter in my steps But never beyond your reach"
"What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read."
"Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human."
"A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder."
"The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at."
"If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible."
"It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that. Like, if you give a tithe, He'll make you rich. Why? Are you hacking Him off or something? If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent. Cause God can handle money better than we can."
"I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion."
"I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it."
"If you can't be good, be loud."
"Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have."
"Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small."
"God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was."
"It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor."